I upgraded two apps to Rails 2.3.3 today. It’s a minor release, and there’s not much to report. But I did run into three minor problems.
Mocha
Mocha 0.9.5 started throwing an exception:
NameError: uninitialized constant Mocha::Mockery::ImpersonatingAnyInstanceName
A quick update to Mocha 0.9.7 cleared this up.
Array parameters in tests
In functional tests with Test::Unit, passing an array to a parameter stopped working. Previously, I had something like this:
post :create, :user => {:role_ids => [1,2,3]} |
This would post the following parameters:
"role_ids"=>["1", "2", "3"] |
But after the 2.3.3 update, I started seeing an error:
NoMethodError: undefined method `each' for 1:Fixnum
I’m not sure why this stopped working. (Anyone know?) Changing the integers to strings clears up the error:
post :create, :user => {:role_ids => ["1","2","3"]} |
Or
post :create, :user => {:role_ids => [1.to_s,2.to_s,3.to_s]} |
Rack
Rack apparently no longer comes bundled with Rails. Or at least deployment failed on cap deploy: RubyGem version error: rack(0.4.0 not ~> 1.0.0).
The solution was simple: install (or vendor) Rack 1.0.0.
config.gem 'rack', :version => '>= 1.0.0' |
I was trying to upgrade an app to 2.3.3 and I ran into the Mocha problem (I even whined about it on Twitter). I was hoping someone else would figure it out!
Also SMTP mail is broken on 1.8: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2340-action-mailer-cant-deliver-mail-via-smtp-on-ruby-191
And the JSON interface mentioned in the RoR weblog post is completely undocumented. I’ve asked for clarification, but still waiting on something.
The arrays in tests issue is fixed in 2-3-stable.
Also rack reloading foobars your development mode unpredictably: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2948-exception-a-copy-of-actorscontroller-has-been-removed-from-the-module-tree-but-is-still-active
Messy release.